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The local store may become a trade.

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The local Apple store may become a trading post.

iPhone rumors continue their surge, and the next big cat may be moments away.

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Talk of a trade-in program for iPhones at Apple stores has resurfaced.

Reports had Apple CEO Tim Cook spelling out the basics of such a program to some employees in early July.

Now MacNN says Apple is hitting the gas on the program, perhaps with an eye on launching

it in conjunction with the release of the next iPhone or iPhones.

The piece has unnamed sources saying that Apple retail workers have started training for the program.

Actually, it's trainers at the store level that are said to have gotten the 4-1, which they'll start passing on to other retail employees next week.

While details of the plan have leaked, the detail when it'll roll out has not

Speculation is that that will coincide with the update of Apple's iPhone line

Because otherwise what are you trading for?

For further evidence that the trade-end program is coming, Tech Crunch says it's already started

in some locations.

Sources for the site say the program is already being piloted at some Apple. some The program works like this, according to the piece, a customer brings a working non-liquid damaged iPhone into an Apple retail store.

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